On 15/04/10 20:04, Allan McRae wrote:
On 15/04/10 17:10, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 09:28:04 +1000
Allan McRae<allan@archlinux.org> wrote:
On 15/04/10 03:40, Thomas Bächler wrote:
Am 14.04.2010 18:42, schrieb Dieter Plaetinck:
On Tuesday 13 April 2010 14:04:44 Allan McRae wrote:
This changes /usr/bin/[ from a symlink to /usr/bin/test to the
actual binary provided upstream. The use of the symlink has
been in Arch for ages (probably for ever), but I can not see
what this change will break. Having the symlink does break
some stuff (FS#19063). Note that Fedora moved from the symlink
to the binary for "[" in 2004.
so what exactly does the binary do? is it an exact copy
of /usr/bin/test, is it a small program that does exec(), or .. ?
I downloaded the 8.4 tarball but couldn't quickly find the answer.
I don't think it matters. Neither [ nor test from coreutils are
actually ever used - the bash (or whatever shell you use) builtins
[ and test are used instead.
In general, this is the only real difference:
NOTE: [ honors the --help and --version options, but test does not.
test treats each of those as it treats any other nonempty STRING.
The rest I think is better compatibility with test synatx when your
shell does not provide "[".
Anyway, we should be supplying what upstream installs.
I asked it just out of curiosity. I agree we should stick to
upstream.
Anyway.... can I now have an i686 signoff? :P
This has taken so long the package is now out of date... I am moving it.
Allan
coreutils 8.4-3
